Scott Ritter was the American leader of the WMD inspection teams in Iraq. Bush ignored his findings and went to war anyway. Washington was only interested in disarmament as a tool for its own agenda. Operating in a fog of espionage and counter-espionage, Ritter and his team were determined to find out the truth about Iraq’s WMD. The CIA were equally determined to stop them. The truth, as we now know, was that Iraq was playing a deadly game of double-bluff and actually had no WMD. But to have revealed this would have derailed America’s drive for regime change.

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